Option 5. Wait till 2002, when florins will go out of currency to be
substituted by euros.
Regards.
Marco
> -----Original Message-----
> From: peter_constable@sil.org [SMTP:peter_constable@sil.org]
> Sent: 1999 September 30, Thursday 21.31
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: Re: A basic question on encoding Latin characters
>
>
>
> Michael E wrote:
> >1. Do nothing. Leave it to the font makers to make special
> fonts for Ewe.
>
> >2. Do nothing now. Wait for Ewe users to complain.
>
> >3. Disunify. Add FLORIN SIGN to the currency symbol block and
> remap Mac and PC characters to it instead of U+0192.
>
> >4. Disunify. Add LATIN SMALL LETTER AFRICAN F WITH HOOK and
> change the case mapping for U+0191 to this rather than to
> U+0192.
>
>
> Option 1 includes the possibility that font makers include
> *two* glyphs which are selected according to features such as
> language using ATSUI/AAT, OpenType or similar technology. I.e.,
> it's not necessary that fonts serve either one or the other but
> not both. This solution still may not be the best, however, for
> purposes other than rendering.
>
> Option 2 is calculated to make certain people continue in their
> distrust of certain bodies, and I hope we can do better than to
> do nothing on this matter.
>
> Option 3 sounds like it would be costly to some companies that
> are probably not that easy to move, and it sounds like it would
> also impact a large number of users.
>
> Option 4 sounds like it would impact the fewest number of users
> (I'm just guessing - please tell me if I'm wrong); I have no
> idea whether this would have a small or large cost on those
> users in the short term. (Long term, it should benefit them.)
>
> I also have no idea how to compare the cost to this group of
> users (option 4) to the alternative costs entailed by option 3.
>
> Peter
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